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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

A Room-By-room Guide to Creating a Home That Makes You Happy

The editors of Domino magazine present a guide to furnishing and decorating every room of a home, in a reference that demonstrates strategic layouts and includes insider shopping tips. 150,000 first printing.

Domino: the Book of Decorating

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Arizona

Over 25 step-by-step projects for every area of the home 

Step-by-step projects for every area of the home.

The Trompe L'Oeil Home

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Create stunning murals with these easy to master painting techniques 

With these completely illustrated, step-by-step techniques, anyone can paint spectacular murals for the home. Master muralists Gary Lord and David Schmidt present 15 magnificent projects, all accessible to the beginner and easily customized. The projects start with simple-yet-effective techniques and progress to more elaborate murals, broken down into a series of mini-demos. The book is filled with expert tips for great results - including various ways to paint skies, the most popular mural subject. The drawing-impaired will especially appreciate the authors' trick for using stencils to create the look of a hand-painted mural. Selling points: 15 imaginative mural projects - from mountains, woodlands and waterfalls to musical swing themes, underwater motifs and farm scenes; No prior experience necessary for professional-looking results - just follow the illustrated, step-by-step instructions; Mural painting appeals to home decorators, decorative painters and fine artists.

Marvelous Murals You Can Paint

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#paperback #embroidery #howto

Sharpie mark on bottom edge, otherwise good condition

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

An Instructional Encyclopedia of Open-Work Techniques

Open Canvas

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Christopher Hart

How to Draw Original Characters from Simple Templates

Nothing satisfies anime artists more than creating original characters for comics and graphic novels—and bestselling author Christopher Hart helps them achieve this goal. He provides insight into the six most popular anime types, from schoolgirls and boys to vengeful bad guys and fantasy creatures, along with templates; step-by-step drawing exercises; and “menus” of head and body types, outfits, and accessories.

The Master Guide to Drawing Anime

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#oilpainting  #howto #howtopaint #oils #fineart #art

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

Discussing how to use color to capture the essence of a scene, this volume covers such topics as material and equipment selection, building space and form, mixing color with a basic palette, and painting color and light effectively

Oil Painting with a Basic Palette

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Reader's Digest Editors

480 pages
Copyright 1988
The perfect book if the internet goes down and you need to repair something in your home. 

Pennsylvania

The most comprehensiv, best organized, hardest working collection of how-to facts and short cuts. 

More than four thousand practical household hints include advice on household organization, housecleaning, storage, family life, personal grooming, decorating, clothing care, appliance repair, car care, house exterior maintenance, gardening, pet care, and more

Household Hints and Handy Tips

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Amy Adams

Massachusetts

All a crafter needs to bring these adorable critters to life is a little time, a few supplies, and a dash of creativity. Whether it's a fuzzy rabbit personalized as a gift, or a charming family of birds to display in the home, this playful guide features easy-to-follow patterns, clear instructions and enchanting photography of the creatures in their natural habitats. Best of all, each project is graded according to difficulty (easy, moderate and slightly tricky) so both experienced and beginner sewers can share in the fun.

Countryside Softies

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Calling all psychology students! You’re going to need this one! This book saved my life in grad school when I had to write countless APA-formatted papers. Rather than sifting through complicated (and occasionally contradictory) citation information online, just pick up this book and you’ll find everything you need to cite your APA paper properly. The back cover has an old barcode label on it that is a bit unsightly, but other than that, this book is in great condition.

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Minnesota

Sixth Edition

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for writers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioural sciences. It provides invaluable guidance on all aspects of the writing process, from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language. Well-known for its authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system, the Publication Manual also offers guidance on choosing the headings, tables, figures, and tone that will result in strong, simple, and elegant scientific communication. The sixth edition offers new and expanded instruction on publication ethics, statistics, journal article reporting standards, electronic reference formats, and the construction of tables and figures.

The sixth edition has been revised and updated to include: new ethics guidance on such topics as determining authorship and terms of collaboration, duplicate publication, plagiarism and self-plagiarism, disguising of participants, validity of instrumentation, and making data available to others for verification; new journal article reporting standards to help readers report empirical research with clarity and precision; simplified APA heading style to make it more conducive to electronic publication; updated guidelines for reducing bias in language to reflect current practices and preferences, including a new section on presenting historical language that is inappropriate by present standards; new guidelines for reporting inferential statistics and a significantly revised table of statistical abbreviations; and, new instruction on using supplemental files containing lengthy data sets and other media. This book includes significantly expanded content on the electronic presentation of data to help readers understand the purpose of each kind of display and choose the best match for communicating the results of the investigation, with new examples for a variety of data displays, including electro physiological and biological data. It offers consolidated information on all aspects of reference citations, with an expanded discussion of electronic sources emphasising the role of the digital object identifier (DOI) as a reliable way to locate information. It features expanded discussion of the publication process, including the function and process of peer review. It contains a discussion of ethical, legal, and policy requirements in publication; and guidelines on working with the publisher while the article is in press.

Key to this edition of the Publication Manual is an updated and expanded Web presence. Look up additional supplemental material keyed to this book. This book lets you test your knowledge of APA Style with a free tutorial on style basics. It lets you learn about the changes in the sixth edition with a free tutorial reviewing key revisions. Sign up for an on-line course to enrich and enhance your understanding of APA Style. Read the APA Style blog and share your comments on writing and referencing. Consult frequently asked questions to sharpen your understanding of APA Style. This title lets you examine additional resources on such topics as ethics, statistics, and writing. It lets you familiarise yourself with submission standards for APA books and journals.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

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Maureen McNaughton

Art, music, drama/theater

The Ultimate Guide to Decorative Painting Brushstrokes

Beautiful brushstrokes step by step! This is the one! The Brushstroke Handbook is your complete reference for mastering more than 50 fabulous strokes. Inside you'll find visual, step-by-step instruction divided into two sections that detail techniques for working with both round and flat brushes in acrylics. The lay-flat spiral binding makes it easy to quickly flip through and find the stroke you want, featuring a range of comma strokes, pressure strokes, fan strokes, teardrop strokes, scroll strokes and much more. From the very basics of supplies and techniques to more in-depth guidance for creating unique compositions, this guide offers everything you need to build confidence, have fun and paint successfully - whether you're a beginner or a more experienced decorative painter. This comprehensive guide includes: Quick-reference photos for finding the right stroke, fast Step-by-step stroke instructions that actually build a little painting with every lesson Easy-to-follow worksheets for combining strokes to make complete flowers, birds, butterflies, lace, ribbons and more 20 fresh and pretty borders painted with round and flat brushes Two sections highlighting common mistakes and how to fix them Plus, this guide offers a bonus section that shows you how to create six gorgeous compositions that feature today's most popular colors and stroke styles. It's all here! The Brushstroke Handbook gives you everything you need to master every stroke and explore a range of decorative painting possibilities. It's the one reference you'll want to have handy for virtually every project.

The Brushstroke Handbook

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Henry Carroll

(Learn Top Photography Tips and How to Take Good Pictures of People)

Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs Of People is an inspiring book of conceptual starting points and invaluable technical tips for anyone, novice or professional, who wants to take top-notch pictures of people. The book distills portrait photography into seven subject areas, including "Composition," "The Gaze," and "The Street," and features beautiful, startling, and inspirational photographs in each category. Readers are given practical insights into the ideas and techniques of a wide range of historical and contemporary masters so they can put it all into practice themselves. Scattered throughout the book are "technical tangents" packed with invaluable practical guidance for basic lighting set-ups, equipment, camera modes and more. Also included is definitive advice from a lawyer on your legal rights when taking pictures of people.

Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People

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#quilting #sewing #crafting #howto #traditional #piecework

Tennessee

Provides diagrams and instructions for creating seventeen miniature quilts and includes additional information on fabric, techniques, and skill levels

Mini Quilts from Traditional Designs

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Michigan

Writing, Editing, designing, Publishing, and marketing 

How to self-publish on Amazon 

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Erin Meyer

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

An international business school professor discusses how to accept and understand diversity and work more effectively and sensitively with colleagues and counterparts from different countries with very different cultures in the new global marketplace. 15,000 first printing.

The Culture Map

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#paperback #nonfiction #teendriver #howto #selfhelp #driving 

Everything New Drivers Need to Know but Don't Know to Ask

Covering virtually every scenario a new driver may face, from changing a tire and negotiating privileges with parents to handling a car in bad weather, a practical guide helps teen drivers navigate through tricky new territory on the road and at home. --Publisher's description.

The Driving Book

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Tracy Kendall

This is a pre-owned spiral-bound, hardcovered book in excellent condition.

Colorado

Over 100 Inspirational Recipes for Dyeing and Decorating

If you want to give fabrics that personal touch, you can't do without this vital tool that covers everything from traditional vat coloring to tie-dying, as well as innovative contemporary methods involving photocopiers, foil, and latex. Jam-packed with handy tips from a leading expert in textile dyeing and decoration, it describes the characteristics of different fabrics and yarns, dyes, pigments, and paints. Color strip, screen or block print, do Indonesian batik, smoke stencil, and so much more, with over 100 inspirational, beautifully photographed recipes for dyeing and patterning fabric, a comprehensive techniques section, and symbols that quickly convey a recipe's difficulty, preparation time, process, and type of dye required. And a handy color key system instantly identifies the best material for each procedure!


The Fabric and Yarn Dyer's Handbook

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W. Ben Hunt

The Easy, Natural Way Using Only Hand Tools and the Woods Around You

W. Ben Hunt's classic has earned a reputation as the" authentic handbook since it was first published in 1939. Updated in 1974, it remains the only step-by-step guide to building log cabins and log furniture -- pioneer style."

How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin

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Clinton Kelly

How to Dress, Speak, Behave, Eat, Drink, Entertain, Decorate, and Generally Be Better Than Everyone Else

The co-host of "What Not to Wear" shares his expertise on everything from the importance of tailoring and making the perfect omelet to party planning, table manners, and thank-you notes, with advice on how to become fabulous in every aspect of one's life.

Freakin' Fabulous

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#nonfiction #photography #paperback #howto #landscapephotography #art #artbooks

An award-winning photographer gives detailed, how-to information on both the technical and artistic aspects of landscape photography. Lange, master of dramatic lighting and composition, presents a clear, straightforward system for recognizing, composing, and shooting memorable landscapes. 115 color photos.

How to Photograph Landscapes

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The Editors of Stackpole Books

Everything You Need to Know to Subsist in the Wilderness

Jam-packed with information on every aspect of outdoor life and adventure, this complete, all-in-one volume covers every aspect of outdoor adventure and survival, from orienteering to campfire cooking to ice climbing and beyond.

Survival Wisdom and Know How

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Understanding and Troubleshooting Solid-State Electronic Equipment (This Edition, 1969)

#paperback #joslin #diabetes #howto #guidebook #facts #faq

Connecticut

A Program for Managing Your Treatment

Furnishes practical advice and techniques developed at the Joslin Clinic to help patients manage the disease.

The Joslin Guide to Diabetes

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Paula Munier

Fair first 10% of book: A few highlights and notations, dog-eared pages. The rest of book good condition 

Texas

How to Build Unforgettable Stories Scene by Scene

Build an Exceptional Plot, One Scene at a Time! Think of your favorite story--the one that kept you turning pages late into the night, the one with a plot so compelling, so multilayered, so perfect that you couldn't put it down. How can you make your own plots--in your novels, short stories, memoirs, or screenplays--just as irresistible? Plot Perfect provides the answer. This one-of-a-kind plotting primer reveals the secrets of creating a story structure that works--no matter what your genre. It gives you the strategies you need to build a scene-by-scene blueprint that will help elevate your fiction and earn the attention of agents and editors. Inside, literary agent, editor, and author Paula Munier shows you how to: • Devise powerful plots and subplots and weave them together seamlessly • Organize your scenes for the greatest impact • Develop captivating protagonists, worthy antagonists, and engaging secondary characters • Use dialogue, setting, tone, and voice to enhance your plot • Layer, refine, and polish your storyline • Define your story in terms of its theme Filled with writing exercises, plotting templates, and expert advice, Plot Perfect helps you dive into the intricacies of plot--and write a compelling story that readers won't be able to resist.

Plot Perfect

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Coulton Waugh

Published 1971   Majority pages in black and white - 16 color pages - see some examples.   Book measures @ 11.25 x 8.5.  Dust cover and a plastic cover over that.   A lot of good how to and explanations and detailing compositions etc.

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